TOM BAUER, Missoulian
Construction continues this spring on units being built on Charlo Street in Missoula's Northside neighborhood.
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Missoula sees strong level of construction in start of 2020 DAVID ERICKSON david.erickson@missoulian.com Missoula saw a robust level of construction activity in the first three months of the year, although those numbers don’t reflect much of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. 14
MISSOULA BUSINESS • SUMMER 2020
According to the City of Missoula’s Development Services Office, staff issued 1,656 building permits in the first quarter of 2020. The total market value of construction for building permits issued from January through March was $43.7 million. That’s about twice
as much market value of construction as was issued in the same time period in 2019 and the strongest first quarter since 2016. Residential construction activity was also brisk. "In this three-month period, building
permits were issued for a total of 111 residential units comprising 99 single units, 4 duplex units and 8 multi-units,” said Alicia Vanderheiden, the office’s business manager, in a report. “39 of these units were approved through a Townhome Exemption Development (TED) process.”
